My wife and I are just recently back from two weeks in Poland and Ukraine. I would like to share some impressions cursorily, and one at some greater length.
Archive for category Devotions and Sacramentals
Yesterday, May 15th, the Oberammergau Passion Play opened its 2010 season.
“I am … asking that those few parish churches and chapels where the tabernacle is not in the direct center at the back of the sanctuary, that these spaces be redesigned in such a way that the Reserved Sacrament would be placed at the center.”
Link to a version of the Stations of the Cross, arranged for public use, with optional meditations on the suffering of God’s people today.
Trinity Church, Wall Street, has long been a leader in pioneering new uses of the internet for evangelization and catechesis. Now they bring the Maundy Thursday adoration to the world with a “Virtual Vigil.”
Stations Online
Feb 23
From Saint Mary’s Basilica in Minneapolis, here are really beautiful Stations of the Cross.
A hunger for the fast
Feb 18
“For those who do too much,” the lector read, “for those who eat and drink too much, or spend too much, or hurry too much, may the discipline of fasting bring simplicity and peace…”
“…Some agent within frankincense which stops cancer spreading, and which induces cancerous cells to close themselves down.”
Ashes
Feb 3
Preparing ministers to assist in the distribution of ashes is a spiritual opportunity as well as a practical one.